Marvin Kaplan

Acting

Marvin Kaplan

Born 1927-01-24 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Marvin Wilbur Kaplan (January 24, 1927 – August 25, 2016) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter who was best known as Henry Beesmeyer in Alice (1978–1985).

Acting credits

Wild at Heart poster
7.0

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Wild at Heart

1990

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World poster
7.0

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963

The Great Race poster
7.1

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

The Great Race

1965

Angels in the Outfield poster
7.0

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.

Angels in the Outfield

1951

Freaky Friday poster
6.1

School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy life. On a normal Friday morning, both complain about each other and wish they could have the easy life of their daughter/mother for just one day and their wishes come true as a bit of magic puts Annabel in Mrs. Andrews' body and vice versa. They both have a Freaky Friday.

Freaky Friday

1976

The Nutty Professor poster
6.5

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

The Nutty Professor

1963

Delirious poster
5.7

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

Delirious

1991

Adam's Rib poster
7.1

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.

Adam's Rib

1949

Bad Cat poster
10.0

Bad Cat (voiced by Bart Braverman) is a lively cat who sets out to prove that a feline does not need to be tough to have class.

Bad Cat

1984

Midnight Madness poster
5.8

A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.

Midnight Madness

1980

Witchboard 2 poster
4.9

A young woman starts receiving messages through a Ouija board, claiming to be from the former occupant of her apartment.

Witchboard 2

1993

Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love poster
4.6

Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-haters in the family do everything possible to prevent the wedding going ahead. Meanwhile, Lewis awaits with eagerness the birth of his unborn foetal child...

Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love

1994

Key to the City poster
6.5

At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan

Key to the City

1950

A New Kind of Love poster
6.2

A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.

A New Kind of Love

1963

No artwork available
NR

Takes a look at twelve working actors in Hollywood over 80 and how they have managed to survive this crazy business.

Troupers

2011

Fangs poster
4.9

A snake lover sends out poisonous snakes and reptiles to kill his enemies.

Fangs

1974

Wake Me When It's Over poster
6.7

The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!

Wake Me When It's Over

1960

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats poster
6.8

Beverly hills dowager leaves everything to Benny the Ball because her only rightful heir, her niece Amy, is missing. But that's only if Benny stays alive for 48 hours. If not, evil butler Snerdly and his mad Russian Wolfhound are next in line - and he's quick to pull every trick in the book to do poor Benny in and the troop sets off to rescue Benny and find the lost heir Amy.

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats

1988

Criminal Lawyer poster
7.4

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.

Criminal Lawyer

1951

Don't Ask Me, Ask God poster
NR

Don't Ask Me, Ask God is a TV Special starring Michael J. Fox.

Don't Ask Me, Ask God

1984

The Reformer and the Redhead poster
7.6

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

The Reformer and the Redhead

1950

Hollywood Vice Squad poster
3.8

A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. She discovers that the girl has become involved in the pornography industry, and goes to the police to get help in finding her.

Hollywood Vice Squad

1986

The Severed Arm poster
4.9

Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.

The Severed Arm

1973

Dark and Stormy Night poster
5.9

In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story.

Dark and Stormy Night

2009